Posts by Michael PeQueen

Here it is, in all its glory: 2018 InSight slides FINAL.3.16.18 Feel free to download, share and otherwise spread the Stat Pack love! If you want John and/or I to come talk to your company or group about local, state, federal or global trends in economics, we are at your service.

Last Friday, Team Stat Pack presented 66 riveting slides to attendees at the Las Vegas Metro Chamber’s Preview event. They provided an economic snapshot for Southern Nevada, the U.S. and the planet at large. We have received many requests for the slide show, so here it is in all its glory: the 2018 Preview slides.

Billed by the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce as “the Freakonomics of Las Vegas,” the Stat Pack team this week presented a top-down 2017 economic overview at Preview Las Vegas, the biggest gathering of Nevada business professionals each year. Sign up to get our Friday Fact Pack in your Inbox over in the upper [...]

Did you know that Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts are more Asian than American in terms of their revenue? And did you know that among the MGM properties, Bellagio produces more than four times the revenue of the Monte Carlo or New York New York? This is the kind of data we live for [...]

Las Vegas is among a host of major metropolitan areas dealing with a growing problem: concentrated poverty. Defined by neighborhoods with at least 40 percent of residents living below the poverty line, poverty concentration is arguably a far more important economic statistic than…..

Like Ben Carson, we humans do a lot of doing. Click through to find out what keeps us busy, plus stats on growing GDPs, discount crudes, and which citizens pay the most astronomical personal income taxes in the world.